Synonyms for inhabit
ɪnˈhæb ɪtin·habit

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1. inhabit

   To abide is to remain continuously without limit of time unless expressed by the context: "to-day I must abide at thy house," Luke xix, 5; "a settled place for thee to abide in forever," 1 Kings viii, 13; "Abide with me! fast falls the eventide," Lyte Hymn. Lodge, sojourn, stay, tarry, and wait always imply a limited time; lodge, to pass the night; sojourn, to remain temporarily; live, dwell, reside, to have a permanent home. Stop, in the sense of stay or sojourn, is colloquial, and not in approved use. Compare ENDURE; REST.

   Synonyms:
   abide, anticipate, await, bear, bide, confront, continue, dwell, endure, expect, live, lodge, remain, reside, rest, sojourn, stay, stop, tarry, tolerate, wait, watch

   Antonyms:
   abandon, avoid, depart, forfeit, forfend, journey, migrate, move, proceed, reject, resist, shun

   Preposition:
   Abide in a place, for a time, with a person, by a statement.

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1. inhabit

   Synonyms:
   tenant, colonize, settle, dwell in, reside in, live in, occupy

   Antonyms:
   abandon, forsake, migrate

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. populate, dwell, live, inhabitverb

   inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of

   "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods"

   Synonyms:
   go, exist, harp, live, hold out, populate, lie in, brood, be, experience, hold up, subsist, dwell, live on, lie, consist, endure, inhabit, survive, know, last

2. inhabitverb

   be present in

   "sweet memories inhabit this house"

   Synonyms:
   dwell, live, populate

3. dwell, inhabitverb

   exist or be situated within

   "Strange notions inhabited her mind"

   Synonyms:
   lie in, dwell, populate, harp, brood, live, lie, consist, inhabit

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Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. indwellverb

   take up residence in

   Submitted by Providence on June 30, 2023  

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1. inhabitverb

   Synonyms:
   occupy, dwell in, live in, reside in

2. inhabitverb

   Synonyms:
   dwell, reside, sojourn, live, abide

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1. List of paraphrases for "inhabit":

   live, reside

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1. Devin Nunes:

   This battle is guided by our intelligence community, which has the difficult task of gathering reliable information about terrorists who inhabit dangerous parts of the world. Although our intelligence is outstanding, it is not perfect.

2. Dawna Markova:

   I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

3. William Jackson Harper:

   I've learned in a very visceral way that people make the world, and the world that we are so privileged to inhabit for these past four seasons is beautiful, and wonderful, and full of good feelings and positivity and kindness, and there's no way to have that environment at work and not feel like,' Well, why can't this be what the rest of my life is like ?' So coming away from the show, I want to make sure that I try to put as much good into the world as I can going forward.

4. Abraham Lincoln:

   This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

5. Fungai Machirori:

   If we're going to talk about Cecil in a balanced manner, we need to talk about the environment that Cecil and Zimbabweans inhabit, to be honest, Cecil, among most people who are highly read and highly knowledgeable about the context of Zimbabwe, was not a very topical issue until there was an international sort of perspective on it.